Why are Republicans so loath to attand civil rights ceremonies?

[HomerJS]

Last year was the 50th anniversary of the I Have A Dream speech. A pivotal moment for the nation in the history of civil rights. All invited Republicans refused to attend. The former chairman Michael Steele of the GOP commented

“It’s part of a continuing narrative that the party finds itself in with these big deals for minority communities around the
country and how they perceive our response to them,” he said

http://newsone.com/2702987/republicans-absent-from-march-on-washington/


Fast forward one year later the 50th anniversary of the bloody Sunday march in Selma the contingent of Republicans is small and none
of the House leadership is attending according to every story as of the evening before. So to avoid all the headlines of "no Republican leaders" attending 8:15pm
the night before Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy got on a plane and went to Selma.

It took the begging from one of the only two Black Republicans in Congress for someone to show up. Tim Scott must know now or will soon
discover what JC Watts realized, two lumps in a snowstorm means those lumps are really cold.

And here's a more blunt demand from another black Republican

And prior to McCarthy's announcement, Ron Christie, a former member of the Bush administration who recently moderated a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference on minority outreach, was more direct. "The Republican leadership needs to get off their ass and get down to Selma to do the right thing for the millions of constituents they represent," he wrote in the Daily Beast.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/kevin-mccarthy-selma anniversary/2015/03/07/id/628817/

Here is another blunt assessment from former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough

Politics is in part -- and I would argue, in large part -- about symbolism. Not sending a top Republican leader to Selma on Saturday suggests Republicans don't get that. Particularly in the wake of the revelations about Scalise speaking to a group affiliated with former KKK grand dragon David Duke. If ever there was a time to say, "We're here because we get how important this is to the country," it's now for Republicans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...oing-to-selma-this-weekend-thats-a-dumb-move/

So why is the party that has so many perceived and real problems with minorities and claimed they were going to enact outreach to these group so loath to attend very important civil rights ceremonies in this country?

 

[Moonbeam]

Black people vote Democratic and are therefore worthless human beings, if human at all.


The mods recognized this as extreme sarcasm, in case someone feels this is a serious statement.

 

[Bock]

Black people vote Democratic and are therefore worthless human beings, if human at all.

Did you know black people used to vote for the republican party about 50 years ago?

 

[Jimzz]

I am thinking mostly trying to not upset many of their base.

Like the joke "Fox news, we're not racist, we're just #1 with racist."

 

[Londo_Jowo]

No doubt had they attended you would have found a reason to piss and moan about their attendance or whatever they chose to say. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Typical political BS.

 

[Smoblikat]

I didnt attend either, does that make me a bad person too? Or is it just whomever happens to be a repub in the spotlight today?

 

[AntonioHG]

I am thinking mostly trying to not upset many of their base.

Like the joke "Fox news, we're not racist, we're just #1 with racist."

This was the first thing that came to mind when I read this nonsense. Doesn't shock me at all.

 

[cbrunny]

Black people vote Democratic and are therefore worthless human beings, if human at all.

That's probably the most racist thing I've read on these forums.

 

[soulcougher73]

Did you know black people used to vote for the republican party about 50 years ago?

Are you talking about when the republican party was more like the democart party of today? The party switched, not the people.

 

[Newell Steamer]

If they attend, they then acknowledge the very problem they frankly don't want to go away.

 

[Genx87]

No doubt had they attended you would have found a reason to piss and moan about their attendance or whatever they chose to say. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Typical political BS.

While this may be true. The Republican party has to make the effort.

 

[Bowfinger]

I didnt attend either, does that make me a bad person too? Or is it just whomever happens to be a repub in the spotlight today?

How many blacks were you elected to represent?

 

[Bowfinger]

No doubt had they attended you would have found a reason to piss and moan about their attendance or whatever they chose to say. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Typical political BS.

No. Try harder, because that excuse is beyond lame.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

No. Try harder, because that excuse is beyond lame.

Obviously you've never read many of the OP's threads/posts.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

This is so Orwellian...seems that liberals now have full control of the "Ministry of Truth". Bush was cropped out of most of the media pictures of the event.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/08/ny-times-crops-bush-out-of-selma-picture-highlights-ferguson/

 

[fskimospy]

This is so Orwellian...seems that liberals now have full control of the "Ministry of Truth". Bush was cropped out of most of the media pictures of the event.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/08/ny-times-crops-bush-out-of-selma-picture-highlights-ferguson/

Today in outrage: a single news outlet didn't use a wide angle shot to include two people fifteen feet apart in a photo = orwell's 1984.

(And publishing a photo like that would amount to a fairly basic violation of best practices for photos where you don't have the middle of your photo empty. )

We live in a weird world, I guess.

 

[JackBurton]

Because no one gives a shit? Are they obligated now to attend every dumb event.

<<Not a Republican.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

This is so Orwellian...seems that liberals now have full control of the "Ministry of Truth". Bush was cropped out of most of the media pictures of the event.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/08/ny-times-crops-bush-out-of-selma-picture-highlights-ferguson/

Right. And they made sure there was no mention of Bush being in attendance at all too! Oh wait a minute...

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Today in outrage: a single news outlet didn't use a wide angle shot to include two people fifteen feet apart in a photo = orwell's 1984.

(And publishing a photo like that would amount to a fairly basic violation of best practices for photos where you don't have the middle of your photo empty. )

We live in a weird world, I guess.

I watched the news on several different stations over the weekend and saw many shots of Obama crossing the bridge and none of Bush (and also zero mention of Bush). I didn't find out until today that Bush was even there and wouldn't have known if the OP wasn't getting his panties in a bunch because no Republican leaders attended. And frankly, I can see how he came to that conclusion given the coverage I saw. Spin, spin, spin.

 

[Genx87]

I watched the news on several different stations over the weekend and saw many shots of Obama crossing the bridge and none of Bush (and also zero mention of Bush). I didn't find out until today that Bush was even there and wouldn't have known if the OP wasn't getting his panties in a bunch because no Republican leaders attended. And frankly, I can see how he came to that conclusion given the coverage I saw. Spin, spin, spin.

Eh I was watching MSNBC live and they were talking about Bush and a SC Republican that attended. MSNBC is about as left as they get.

 

[fskimospy]

I watched the news on several different stations over the weekend and saw many shots of Obama crossing the bridge and none of Bush (and also zero mention of Bush). I didn't find out until today that Bush was even there and wouldn't have known if the OP wasn't getting his panties in a bunch because no Republican leaders attended. And frankly, I can see how he came to that conclusion given the coverage I saw. Spin, spin, spin.

Of course you also would have found out that Bush was there by simply reading the article that your own link is complaining about.

But yeah, I'm sure it's the liberal media's fault somehow.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

http://newsone.com/2702987/republicans-absent-from-march-on-washington/

Do you realize that you linked a 2013 article? And where were the Clintons? Why did they "refuse" to attend? Why were they so "loath" as to not attend a very important civil rights ceremonies in this country?

 

[rudder]

Today in outrage: a single news outlet didn't use a wide angle shot to include two people fifteen feet apart in a photo = orwell's 1984.

(And publishing a photo like that would amount to a fairly basic violation of best practices for photos where you don't have the middle of your photo empty. )

We live in a weird world, I guess.

Yet here we are in a thread lambasting the fact that no Republicans attended a high visibility civil rights ceremony.

 

[IGBT]

why do liberals spend all their time looking thru the rear view mirror of history rather then deal with the black on black genocide taking place every day in the liberal states and cities??

 

[Matt1970]

"Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), currently the only Black senator serving in the United States government, was not invited to speak...."

Guess you can only spin this so far huh?